Daily archives: June 18, 2009

Tweets today

23:44 Blog: Tweets today tinyurl.com/m3v6ko #

00:42 Blog: Jedi would have been so much better if they’d replaced the Ewoks with chipmunks tinyurl.com/l7rd7v #

11:01 Save the World: The XR3 hybrid is ugly but efficient tinyurl.com/l5xvyg #

12:31 No doubt my video editing technique would give a professional nightmares. But I’m getting there with the first version. #

13:40 Watching 24. For research purposes, obviously. #

16:45 Very rough first cut done, but the editor’s become grouchy. So I shall read up on the effects I want to use on it. #

17:28 TwitterFox on the laptop is showing me tweets sent "about one day from now". Someone say something momentous I can bet on please. #

17:30 @awardsounds researching how to make split screens. I suspect masks and other trickery. #

18:06 @awardsounds Similar to what I’d started doing. Which is good. Shall do more tomorrow probably. Depends upon access to the computer. #

20:45 Blog: Maunsell Towers tinyurl.com/npm5jc #

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Maunsell Towers

From the Steam Geek archives-

The Maunsell Towers were set up to provide anti aircraft defence in the Thames Estuary during World War Two. Each “fort” comprised of one Bofors tower, a control tower, four gun towers and a searchlight tower. Three forts were built Nore Army Fort, the Red Sands Army Fort and the Shivering Sands Army Fort, of which the latter two still stand, more or less.

Wikipedia on Maunsell Forts.

Project Red Sands.

Sealand, most famous of the offshore forts, with plans

via BoingBoing

The XR3 hybrid is ugly but efficient

The XR3 diesel electric hybrid three wheeler has a claimed consumption of 125 miles to the gallon (US gallon, I assume) and is soon going to be mass produced. The XR3 started out as a set of plans so you could build your own. I found it whilst browsing the designer’s other creations such as the XR2 recumbent bike.

It’s cool that such a car is going into production, but does it have to look like one of the background vehicles from a 1980’s science fiction movie?

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